Tag: "behavior" at medical news

...e to dominant American society their substance use behavior appears to mimic that of whites, the culture they are acculturating to. The research also showed that acculturated Hispanics were almost twice as likely as non-acculturated Hispanics to report current binge drinking and more than three times as lik...

...udy co-author and an assistant professor of health behavior and health promotion at Ohio State University. Women in the study reported that they enjoyed a step-aerobics class more when the instructor focused on the health-related aspects of the workout, telling them how exercise will make them more fit. T...

...ate and disruptive sleep can lead to problems with behavior and mood along with difficulty with cognition. R...head preparing for school by modifying all of your behavior to the expected start school time and the new bedtime. Dr. Downey suggests that if teens adjust th...

...in uncontrolled growth--cancer--or some other cell behavior are made. It was thought that some form of an enzyme called MEK, which belongs to the family of signaling enzymes, was the culprit. But to cause cancer, an enzyme or other agent is expected to be active all the time, like a light with no off switch...

...he potential to develop approaches to analyze cell behavior and structure in living embryos. The Foundations Board of Directors has unanimously approved the recommendations made by the Scientific Advisory Committee. ...

... have the greatest impact on smoking attitudes and behavior when adolescents think that their peers are listening to those messages, Paek said. And that makes sense because people are more likely to listen to what their close peers say rather than what the media says. Evidence that anti-smoking ads have the...

...h behavior, are more effective in promoting health behavior change for avoidance-oriented people, or those who avoid negative outcomes. Conversely, gain-framed messages, which communicate the benefits of engaging in a particular health behavior, are more effective for approach-oriented people, or those who ar...

...logy, has received scant attention in the consumer behavior literature, write the authors. Weight loss products, alternative medicines, and dietary supplements, are examples of product categories for which reduced confidence may be relevant and for which this illusion of control may be highly prevalent....

...of supplements are that they require supplementary behavior in order to work. People appear to choose supplements almost as a matter of faith rather than science, Bolton says. They perceive these products as natural and figure they cant hurt. And our research suggests that they dont -- at least in terms of...

WESTCHESTER, Ill. Aggressive behavior and bullying, common among schoolchildren, are likely to have multiple causes, one of which may be an undiagnosed sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD), according to a research abstract that will be presented Wednesday at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annua...

...s stay up late and sleep in over the weekend, this behavior resets their daily clock to a later time," said Crowley. "This resetting can push back the brain's cue to be awake on Monday morning for school. As a result, teens may feel worse and have poor performance in school at the beginning of the week. Es...

...sociated with both internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, specifically those associated with ADHD ...sation can be inferred, an overlap between daytime behavior problems, poor sleep hygiene, and potentially problematic bedtime behaviors in snoring children may ...

...ut little about the importance of a health-related behavior that takes up one-third or more of our childrens lives, namely, sleep." Dr. Lushington notes that "doing" is a good way for children to learn, and that the Sleep Slide-Rule makes physical the inter-relationship between bedtime, sleep need and wa...

...including humans, experience postpartum changes in behavior and emotional state, as well as similar maladaptive responsesand yet so little is known about the underlying mechanisms that cause them, said Robert S. Bridges, Ph.D., professor and head of the Section of Reproductive Biology at the Cummings School a...

...of one year. The treatments included dialectical behavior therapy, supportive psychotherapy, and TFP, a spec...in symptoms. The study also included dialectical behavior therapy (or DBT), which is a cognitively based therapy. Supportive therapy also has its roots in psy...

... areas of the brain that control memory, judgment, behavior and intelligence. The disease was first discovered more than 100 years ago by a German physician, Dr. Alois Alzheimer, when he diagnosed a patient who died of a dementia-type illness at age 55. ...

...D-Cycloserine, which has been used to treat phobic behavior over the past decade. In animal studies, D-Cycloserine appeared to significantly diminish the emotional suffering from pain as well as reduce the sensitivity of the formerly injured site. It also controlled nerve pain resulting from chemotherapy...

...ase in risk of death when used to treat disruptive behavior of older adults with dementia. The study suggests that both newer atypical antipsychotics and older conventional antipsychotics are associated with increased mortality. The highest risk appears to involve use of the older conventional drugs. An...

...t with clinical reports of increased confusion and behavior problems in those with dementia during acute hospitalization or trips away from home. Patients who had prior adult day care services may be better able to adjust to the unfamiliar environment. "The findings suggest that the transition from the comm...

(Date:7/23/2015)... 23, 2015 Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE ), ... financial results for its second quarter ended June 30, 2015. ... was $4.5 million, a decrease of 33% compared to $6.8 ... the second quarter of 2015 was $0.3 million, or $0.01 ... per diluted share, in the same period a year ago. ...